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be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....
a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...
importance and children were to be guarded from superfluous information to come from for example poetry and literature. Rather, th...
is not clear how the lower classes are expected to live (1993). It is also noted that while Plato makes a case for communism for ...
as well as the people. When one views the former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for example, one hardly thinks ab...
that was determined by human will, in that people choose whether or not to keep their promises (Hobbes, 1982). Those that keep th...
he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...
interprets the ideal of freedom and to what extent they live in their own psychological prisons. Social freedom means that one wil...
not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...
surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...
human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...
God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...
the street ... must and will reflect our personal moral standards" (Reavley, 2001). Those moral standards, Reavley implies, must ...
come after Plato, not before. (This example is found in Book VII of The Republic, which is available online.) As Im sure youll ...
In three pages gender concepts are discussed in this consideration of how Plato regarded equality for women. Two sources are cite...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our ignorance of how to harmonize our activities with the worlds scrip...
"what is justice?" and after a definition is provided, Socrates gets the interlocutor to make a statement that would obviously con...
draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of it once, and that expl...
culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...
society exist without democracy? Many theorists today would think not, and while many enlightened individuals could argue that mer...
words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...
charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...
believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...
also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...
background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...
that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...
had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...